From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:19:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add platform-independent .git "symlink"
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802042218280.8543@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <47A78CF9.6040001@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:
> 
> >> Have you thought about using git-clone instead?
> > 
> > Briefly.  But this is not about cloning the repository.  It is about 
> > having an additional working directory for the current repository.
> 
> I think that is true at the low level, but from a high level it feels 
> similar to me.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I _want_ the original repository to know that there is another working 
> > directory.
> 
> Yes, your ideas are much better than simply adding the functionality of 
> the git-new-workdir script (which is what I was planning on doing btw :)

Somehow these two statements do not work together.  Either you have a 
clone, or you accept that a new working directory is actually working on 
the _same_ repository.

Ciao,
Dscho